Book Reviews

Book Reviews – Series

  • Summer 2019

Book Review: I Like to Watch: Arguing My Way Through the TV Revolution

Though it’s taken for granted that television has a big seat at the table in the modern entertainment world, journalist…

5 years ago
  • Movie News

Book Review: The Filmmaker’s Eye: The Language of the Lens (The Power of Lenses and the Expressive Cinematic Image)

In Gustavo Mercado’s newest book, The Filmmaker’s Eye: The Language of the Lens, the award-winning independent moviemaker turned professor explores…

5 years ago
  • Movie News

Book Review: Independent Female Filmmakers: A Chronicle Through Interviews, Profiles, and Manifestos

With Hollywood in its second year of the #MeToo era, more than ever, films, festivals, and studios are doing their…

5 years ago
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Book Review: The Art of American Screen Acting, 1912-1960

With biographies, documentaries, and podcasts telling the stories of Greta Garbo, James Cagney, and other classic film stars, some have…

5 years ago
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Book Review: Action Realism: The Art of Action

Taking as its jumping-off point the by now familiar topic of digital moviemaking’s ubiquitousness and accessibility, action director Lawrence Ribeiro’s…

5 years ago
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Book Review: Liberating Hollywood

Between the Time’s Up movement, demands for wage equality and historic firsts for female moviemakers, Hollywood is undergoing a sexual…

5 years ago
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Book Review: Shoot From the Heart

Diane Bell’s feature debut Obselidia won two awards at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival, and those accolades are made more…

5 years ago
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Book Review: The Coen Brothers: This Book Really Ties the Films Together

In the early 1980s, a film school dropout and his brother, then a philosophy student working as a typist at…

5 years ago
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Book Review: Miyazakiworld: A Life in Art

In this exploration of Japanese animator Hayao Miyazaki’s filmography, professor Susan Napier paints a fascinating portrait of the world this…

5 years ago
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Book Review: Shaping Light for Video in the Age of LEDs

“Lights, camera, action!”—the classic, Old Hollywood call to arms. The adage remains, but—as articulated by career gaffer and lighting designer…

5 years ago